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Author: Alison C. Pepper Publisher: ISBN: Category : Discrimination against overweight persons Languages : en Pages : 200
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Antifat attitudes refer to the beliefthat overweight and obese individuals are responsible for their weight. The current study examined differences in antifat attitudes between 264 Latina and European American females from a local high school, junior college, and state college. Results from the hierarchical regression supported hypotheses one and two; that is, when controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), body mass index (BMI), and self-esteem, antifat attitudes were positively correlated with both body dissatisfaction and eating concerns. In support hypothesis three, a Oneway Analysis of Covariance revealed that above SES, BMI, and selfesteem, European American females reported significantly greater antifat attitudes than Latinas. Planned comparisons showed that European American females and high acculturated Latinas reported significantly greater antifat attitudes than both bicultural Latinas and low acculturated Latinas. However, as expected, European Americans and high acculturated Latinas reported similar levels of antifat attitudes. A second regression was conducted to test hypotheses four and five. Results did not confirm that acculturation interacted with either body dissatisfaction or eating concerns in predicting antifat attitudes. Post hoc analyses evidenced a significant interaction between body dissatisfaction and a component of acculturation (i.e. language-use) in predicting antifat attitudes. Interpretations of the current study's results, the importance of continuing to explore the role of acculturation, and directions for future research are discussed in conclusion.
Author: Alison C. Pepper Publisher: ISBN: Category : Discrimination against overweight persons Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Antifat attitudes refer to the beliefthat overweight and obese individuals are responsible for their weight. The current study examined differences in antifat attitudes between 264 Latina and European American females from a local high school, junior college, and state college. Results from the hierarchical regression supported hypotheses one and two; that is, when controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), body mass index (BMI), and self-esteem, antifat attitudes were positively correlated with both body dissatisfaction and eating concerns. In support hypothesis three, a Oneway Analysis of Covariance revealed that above SES, BMI, and selfesteem, European American females reported significantly greater antifat attitudes than Latinas. Planned comparisons showed that European American females and high acculturated Latinas reported significantly greater antifat attitudes than both bicultural Latinas and low acculturated Latinas. However, as expected, European Americans and high acculturated Latinas reported similar levels of antifat attitudes. A second regression was conducted to test hypotheses four and five. Results did not confirm that acculturation interacted with either body dissatisfaction or eating concerns in predicting antifat attitudes. Post hoc analyses evidenced a significant interaction between body dissatisfaction and a component of acculturation (i.e. language-use) in predicting antifat attitudes. Interpretations of the current study's results, the importance of continuing to explore the role of acculturation, and directions for future research are discussed in conclusion.
Author: Sonya Kyrsten Bettendorf Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 113
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Research has demonstrated a link between acculturation to the mainstream society and eating disorder behaviors among Mexican American women. The current study sought to identify mediators in the relationship between acculturation to the mainstream society and eating disorder behaviors, including internalization of sociocultural pressures of thinness and body dissatisfaction, to help inform research of the processes by which this relationship occurs. In the spirit of working from a strength-based framework, the study also sought to identify unique cultural variables that served as moderators in the relationship between acculturation to the mainstream society and internalization of sociocultural pressures of thinness. The study included a sample of 209 Mexican American women from Latino cultural organizations and Latino studies programs in universities across the U.S. Path analysis was conducted to test the overall model fit as well as specific hypothesized effects. Findings suggested that the model was not a goodfit to the data. In addition, results indicated that internalization did not mediate the association between acculturation and body dissatisfaction, whereas body dissatisfaction did mediate the association between internalization and both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Results also indicated that ethnic identity did not moderate the link between acculturation and internalization, while familism did moderate this link. Further, acculturation was not significantly related to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, ethnic identity was significantly related to internalization, and familism was not significantly related to internalization. Findings are discussed in the context of multicultural research and theory as it relates to Mexican American women's lived experiences.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 33
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Acculturation processes involve adaptation from the culture of origin to the host culture. As a result, foreign born Latinos experience a shift in norms, values, behaviors, and attitudes towards non-Latino (Western) culture when relocating to the United States. Acculturation among Latina women has been associated with behaviors contributing to obesity and may affect dieting behaviors. Behavior change interventions targeting weight loss through diet achieve moderate short term weight loss. Changes, however, are not sustained and disrupt homeostasis. In contrast, intuitive eating offers a non-dieting approach to weight management teaching participants to eat according to physiological hunger and satiety cues. Intuitive eating has been associated with improved physiological and mental health outcomes. A convenience sample of 54 Latina women completed surveys and anthropometric measurements at baseline as part of Valorando Nuestros Cuerpos (Valuing Our Bodies) pilot study. This aim of this study was to assess the relationship between acculturation and intuitive eating among Latina women residing near the United States-Mexico border using a cross-sectional survey. This study examined the relationship between acculturation and intuitive eating using multiple measures of acculturation including Marin's Bi-dimensional Acculturation Scale (BAS), country of birth, years of residence and age at arrival among foreign born, and the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2). Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients and a multiple linear regression were run to assess the significance of the variables representing acculturation and intuitive eating (IE). Results indicated the majority of the sample was foreign born, overweight or obese, dominant in Latino culture according to the BAS, and relatively high intuitive eating scores. Contrary to the hypothesis, analyses found no significant relationship between acculturation and intuitive eating. However, the relationship between BMI and intuitive eating approached significance. Possible reasons for lack of significance include volunteer bias from convenience sampling, frequent border crossing, and low levels of acculturation. Further research is needed to validate the translation of the complete IES-2 scale into Spanish and to include a group of Latina women with more variance in generations and ethnic groups. Despite a lack of statistical significance, intuitive eating remains a promising approach to weight maintenance for Latina women.
Author: Linda Trew Ahlfield-Bruhn Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acculturation Languages : en Pages : 52
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This study will examine the relationship between acculturation and the attitudes toward eating disorders in Mexican American girls and young women in the state of New Mexico. this longitudinal repeated measures (2) study will span a 6-year period starting at age 12 (+/-1 year) and ending when the young women reach age 18. The test battery for this study will consist of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale (BAS) for Hispanics. Subjects will participate in testing at 2-year intervals. The female head-of-household, either the mother or guardian, will also accompany the young girls in the every-other-year testing. It is hypothesized that at each year of testing the gap between mother's and daughter's scores on the BAS will get wider, indicating the daughter's increased acculturation to Western cultural ideals.
Author: Alice Koyun Chi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Asian American youth Languages : en Pages : 268
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Eating disorders, once conceptualized as a White women's disease, have been on the rise affecting both women and men of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Although Asian Americans represent the third largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., little attention has been paid on the development of disordered eating among Asian Americans. Given the central role and cultural meanings behind food and eating in Asian cultures, the use of food as a culturally appropriate, yet ineffective, coping mechanism calls for deeper understanding of cultural influences and variations of eating psychopathology among Asian Americans. The present study performed a secondary data analysis on a nationally representative longitudinal sample of adolescents in the U.S (Add Health). The study examined the moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation on the relationship between enmeshed family dynamics ( overprotectiveness and conflict avoidance) and characteristics of disordered eating (weight control behaviors, binge eating, past eating disorder diagnosis, and disordered eating behaviors). Among White adolescents, point-biserial correlations showed a weak relationship between overprotectiveness and binge eating. It also showed a weak relationship between conflict avoidance and weight control behaviors and overall disordered eating behaviors among White adolescents. There is no statistical significance in the relationships between enmeshed family dynamics and disordered eating among the Asian American counterparts. Similarly, logistic regression analyses yielded no statistically significant moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation. The lack of statistically and clinically significant findings is likely due to inadequacies in operationalization of measurement. Future research with improved sample sizes and measurement approaches are needed to replicate the current study and to further explore the relationship between family dynamics and disordered eating among Asian Americans.
Author: Stacey Cardoz Lopez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Hispanic American college students Languages : en Pages : 142
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The current study focused on the prevalence of negative eating attitudes in one hundred and forty-five Latina college students and delineated the cognitive and cultural factors that may be responsible for the increase in negative eating attitudes (NEAT) in Latinas. Questionnaires were distributed to college students enrolled in various social science classes in undergraduate psychology courses at Cal State University, San Bernardino for extra course credit.
Author: Keisha Denythia Henry Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation on three relationships: media exposure and awareness of sociocultural appearance norms, awareness of social ideals and thin-ideal internalization, and thin-ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction were examined. European American students and African American participants from both predominantly White and historically Black colleges and universities completed measures of media exposure, awareness of socicultural attitudes towards appearance, internalization of appearance norms, body dissatisfaction, and acculturation. The LISREL 8.5 program was used to perform structural modeling analysis using the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square and associated robust standard errors to test the relationship between ethnic groups. The results support previous findings regarding the mediational effect of internalization on the relationship between awareness and body dissatisfaction, and also provided evidence for the relationship between media exposure and awareness of sociocultural norms. The relationship between media exposure and awareness, and awareness and internalization were similar for both groups, while relationship between internalization and body dissatisfaction was stronger for European American women than for African American women. These results indicate ethnicity may serve to protect some women against the development of eating disorder symptoms, as well as the role of acculturation as a moderator between media exposure and awareness and between internalization and body dissatisfaction in African American women.
Author: Melissa J. Perez Publisher: ISBN: 9781321964776 Category : Languages : en Pages : 61
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Despite low socioeconomic status and lack of resources, Latinas are found to have better-than-expected birth outcomes, which deteriorate with higher US acculturation. In addition, as the incidence of obesity rises amongst Latinas, it is necessary to study this acculturation paradox in the context of obesity. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between US acculturation and poor birth outcomes, particularly examining preterm birth and/or low birth weight (PTLBW), in a sample of Mexican origin women. Furthermore, the differential effect of obesity on the association between acculturation and birth outcomes was examined. This was a longitudinal observational study using data from the Study for Hispanic Acculturation, Reproduction, and the Environment (SHARE). Participants were 1,062 pregnant women recruited from six Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics in San Joaquin County, California between 1999 and 2001. The majority of women were of Mexican descent at varying lengths of US residency. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the associations among acculturation, obesity and poor birth outcomes. Results demonstrated a significant association between US acculturation and PTLBW such that moderately acculturated women had over three times the odds of experiencing PTLBW, while low and highly acculturated women did not show an increased risk. In moderately acculturated women who were also obese, their chance of PTLBW decreased, indicating that obesity acted as a buffer for PTLBW. This effect was not demonstrated in low or highly acculturated women. In conclusion, this study re-examines the Latina Acculturation Paradox in the context of obesity. It is unique in that it demonstrates deviation from the paradox, as the most highly acculturated women did not experience the worst birth outcomes. Additionally, this is among the first study to demonstrate a protective effect of obesity in terms of perinatal health.
Author: Alison C. Pepper
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Author: Linda Trew Ahlfield-Bruhn
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Author: Melissa J. Perez